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GRAMMY Camp Party In Times Square N.Y.

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Vanessa Carlton

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Marsha Ambrosius

August 05, 2011 -- 1:58 pm PDT

On Aug. 7 the New York installment of GRAMMY Camp will culminate with a launch party at Best Buy Theater in Times Square featuring original performances and video presentations created by students during GRAMMY Camp, as well as a networking session with several industry professionals and artists.

This year the GRAMMY Foundation selected 111 talented high school students from 93 cities across the United States to participate in the seventh annual GRAMMY Camp. GRAMMY Camp in New York is being held in Brooklyn, N.Y., from Aug. 2–8 as a seven-day residential program for high school students that offers campers the opportunity to work in integrated industry teams in the following three fields: Music Business & Production, Singer/Songwriter, and Performance — Instrumental or Vocal. This real-world, hands-on environment will involve an in-depth look at the entire creative process from the first spark of original material through the promotion of a finished song. GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles took place July 9–18 at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.

GRAMMY Camp is supported in part by Best Buy, Converse and the Hot Topic Foundation. This year, financial assistance for GRAMMY Camp was provided by ASCAP, BET, the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Fund, Ford Motor Company Fund, Hot Topic Foundation, and KCRW, as well as several individual donors.

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